Who’s the Boss? Benedict XVI or Speaker Pelosi?

The Gospel According to Pelosi

Joseph Klein
NewsReal Blog
2010 May 12

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now interpreting Gospel to Catholic cardinals, archbishops and bishops. She told them to speak from the pulpit for immigration reform and to preach to Catholics who oppose it that reform is a “manifestation of our living the gospels”:

I want you to instruct your, whatever the communication is — the people, some of them, oppose immigration reform are sitting in those pews and you have to tell them that this is a ‘manifestation of our living the gospels. Our patron saint of San Francisco, St. Francis of Assisi, he said, ‘preach the gospel –sometimes use words.’ We need the words to be said because it isn’t being picked up automatically.

Pelosi went on to urge the clergy to get on board with focusing on the ‘rights’ of illegal immigrants rather than on the fact that these aliens are here illegally in the first place:

We have to respect that dignity and worth and recognize that the Church has an important role to play in that. We don’t — as a practical matter, we can’t say to people, 12 million of you, ‘go back to wherever you came from or go to jail’…

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